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tion, I siould think, at least 12,000 men. „Their dead are in heaps before us, and the wourited that tney carried off are too numerous to be counted by peasants who have ['cwt . them. I hope this army will receive some mark of dis tinction for the gallantry it has displayed ; and let it not be forgotten that the present is the only instance, since the French hate been so reputed in arms, in which a large aruty, equipped iti every 'thing, and, commanded by their test Officers, has ben defeat• ed.by an army half its numbers. " I have been extremely fortunate in the action ; - although I was engaged in the heaviest of the fire, no accident happened to me. There is a strong report that Soult'S. army' is moving towards Placentia; I think it probaiole, but I do not believe he can do us. any matetial harm.—Venegas has marched upon Toledo and Aranjuez, but not as was at first in tended, as yet he has created no diversion in our favour, except that King JuSEPH is gone with his corps of 6000 to Madrid.. Sir li,pbtwt. ; Wilson is returned to Escalona; he had advanced beyond it to within three leagues of Madrid i-;be':!was,• how ever, obliged to. retire to join the army, and is now only gone oil again.. Ok - i the left of outline, in the action of the the French endeavoured to push a ,eoluoin in the mountains. : A Spanish division. under Genera! _Basseon; - , - was sent against them, and behaved very bravely." MAILS. • Alta Heligoland, i Dublin, t Waterford. Dua-2 Guttenburgh, i Malta, r Dublin, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWSLVS O'CLOCK. Consols - - tsaii I Red. Ann -68 i THE SUN. SOLiM QUIS DICARI IFALSUM AUDIAT 1 L 0 N D 0 IV, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1809. We are still unable to communicate to our Readers any official intelligence of ,the surrender of Flush ing, though we hate' no doubt of the .fact. This delay in the arrival of the official intelligence may be accounted for from the cirqumstanee of Lord CHATHAM having gone to Bathz to superintend the prepara! ions against Lino, and Sir E.CooTE,who com manded before Flushing, would of course transmit his dispatches to Lord CHATHAM, in South Beveland.— We have little doubt that the next arrival will bring us some • important intelligence respeaing the opera tions against Lillo, as every preparation had been made fur an attack upon that important. Fotoess. We have received German Papers tb'the - Sth inst. They contain some reports, of the Preliminaries of Peace between Austria and France being signed, but if so: h an event had taken - place; it would soon be officially notified throughout the Continent. The other itheiligence in these Papers, is of very indent)- . port ance. - Just before this Paper was put to Press, we re ceived Paris Tapers to the pa, -Hamburg lt to the I tat, and Fraidifort to the 4th, from which we have made the tullov,ing extraCts:— PARIS, AtG. 1.-Tile preparations making here induce us to presume that his Majesty will soon be here. The Imperial Guard has. already.received or ders to occupy the same posts as is tisakvhen the Emperor is here. " It is rvpotted here that i a general Congress of all the Princes of the Confederation will be held in this City. VIENNA, JULY 23.—The Prince,ot LICHTEN 3tEIN makes frequent jourtiies from Cornorn to Sehot,i,brunn. According to • eports, the signature of peace is near; the conditions will be very advan tageous to the Princes of the Rhenish Confederacy, but particularly to Bavaria and Saxony. The frun tiers of Austria will be removed far to the East. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LPTTER. The reports relative to peace are too vague to make Ili place much confidence in them. Some persons suite, that Austria oilers to cede the Coast, Salinurli, and Gallicia; but nothing positive is known of the conditions . upon which Austria will obtain peace. Toe negotiations continue, and it is probable that hostilities . ‘sill not be renewed.— They speak of a contingent which the .Emperor of Austria is to furnish in conjunction with Fiance and Russia against Tut key. But all these rumours rest upon uu authentic source." THE ENGLISH EXPEDI Now. Atx LA CHAPELLE, AUG. 2.—ln consequence of the arri‘ al of the intelligence of the landing of the Expedition► on Zealand, which was brought here by . severA couriers, his Majksty. the. King of Holland set out yesterday for that country'. DORDRECHT, AUG. 4.--4110 English have ex perienced the most ob,iinate resistance in Walche ren. The town of Veer stood a bombardment of twehtk -four hours. We know not yet the fate 01 the fi,:til!4. " Gen. MONNET retreated on the 31st to Flush ing. Tlie of Cadsand is ilotyet attadtt.d, and tS -, )ups are conve)ed to it by waggons. " Tire French fleet is gone up the Scheldt, and anchored under Fort Lilo, where it is believed to be security. The enemy has as yet undertaken po- thing ag4iiist it. " All the letters from Ant werp, Bergen-op. Zoom, and other frontier places, speak of the arrival and march of French and DutOh troop in great numbers towards Zealand. " AMSTERDAM, AUG. s.—His Majesty returned here on the 2d, at eleven traordinary meeting of the Council of State immedi ately took place, and after some conferences with the Ministers, his Majesty set off for Rotterdam. " Our Court Gazette states that a considerable French force, destined to drive out the entsrop‘ is assembled in the neighbourhood of Ghent, under the Prince of PONTE Coavo, who must by this time (the 2d) have arrived there. The troops are marching daily from Ghent towards Antwerp. (FROM THE COURT GAZETTE.) " AMSTERDAM, AUG. 4.—The English Expedi- tion against Zealand appears to be openly direct ed against the French squadron at Antwerp. The army, assembled under General TEREYRA, is daily increased. Troops arrive at Antwerp from all quar ters, and in a short time a serious battle will take place. The flotilla under Admiral RUYSCII has taken a position off Kramer. Marshal DE WINTER com mands in chief on the water. He has informed the King of the gallant conduEt , of Colonel OSSE.• WARD. He commanded a division of tbe•flotilla at-Veer, and had an action with a division of the enemy's squadron, and formed a juttakia with Ad miral RUYSCH. • - Marshal DUMONCEAU commands the Dutch troops by land, and the naval force at Anasterdani. Ge neral BRUCE, who commanded in South Beveland, surrendered the batteries of that Island without firing a musket, and retreated to Ile'rgen-op-Zoom. His Majesty has,:hy a decree, declared him unworthy of having any military rank. " ALTONA, AUG. hasi been re ceived at Dresden, that on the 2tith of July, the Preliminaries of Peace ba‘.veen France and Aus tria were concluded; and according to letters from Frankfort of the Q.7th, the signing of the Peace has been announced there by the tiring of cannon and the ringing - of bells. Both reports, however, are e%ident ly premature. LOUISBOURG, JULY 3 1 Court Gazette states that on the Ist the town or Gratz, and on the 23d the citadel, were given up to the French, and the whole province evacuated by the Austrians. Count GUILAY at first refused to give up Gratz, till Mar shal MAcnuNALn,advanced with two fresh French divisions. " VIENNA, JULY 2 6.—Now that the first four.. teen days of the Armistice are over, we are here 'ill anxious expcthltion to know whether the notice, of the renewal , of hostiliti , s will be given. The great fortifications building by the French, and the great military labutui of every kind, taken altogether, af ford nu very ',agreeable prospect of the future.— (Aliona Gazet4e.) " PARIS, Ai; G. t .—Letters from Vienna state, that Count CILAMPAGNY and the Duke of RIVOLI on the part of the French, and Pri.ice DE LICHTEN STEIN and Barou VINCENT are furnished with full powers to treat for Peace. " General ST:. SAVARRE is appointed to the chief command of the (toast from Boulogne to Flushing. " M. ANTOINE, nephew of the Queen of Spain, and FRANESCHI, I)ephew of General DANEs, have fallen into the hams of the Spanish Insurgents." The Opposition WI iter who yesterday so tenderly alluded to the Irish t Rebels, said to be at Flushing, has thought proper to resume the subjea to-day, and still attempts to je Stify the fallacy of his dodrines respeding the poweT of subjects to throw of their allegiance to. their I:twful Sovereign. Yesterday the Writer said, " the:it! few Irishmen, we suppose to be some of the indioiduals who were thrown from their native Country, repudiated, and thereby absolv ed from all allegiance."—To-day he takes it for granted these are the very Irishmen in question.— We endeavoured yestet slay to prove the folly of sup posing that men entitle , I themselves by their crimes to an exemption from all egiance, and, that whatever offences they may subsequently commit against their Sovereign they are not li.sble to punishment, because they have been banished for their former guilt. No thing can be more absurd, or more mischievous, than such a principle,whieh is not sanCtioned by the pradice of any civilized State. But the Writer we allude to contends, that if men !lave once been repudiated by their SoVereign, they are released from all responsi bility to him, whatever,they may do, and wherever they may be found, mat of his dominions. The fad is, that these Irish _Rebels are in the situation of those culprits, who for other offences against their country are transported for life, and who, if they return, or join the enemies of their SoVereign, and are taken, ought to endure the penalty annexed to such an offence. After all, however, this reasoning maysbear no reference to the state of things in Flush ing, the surrender of which is said to have been re tarded by a non-compliance with requisitions in fa- I your of Irish Rebels. GERM4N PAPER.S. MORAVIA, JULY 22.—The Austrians will take possession, at least provisionally, and till the conch!. sion of peace, of the Town of Cracow, in virtue of the 6th article of the Armistice, which states that each army shall preseiVe the line in Poland which they may occupy upon the day of the signature of the suspension of arms, which was the 12th of this month. We know that the Austrians had not eva cuated that town on the 14th. MADRID, JULY 14.—We positively know that General BALLESTEROS is at Leanes, with the remnant of his army which he has been able to assemble, but General BONNET, who has received a reinforcement of three battalions, occupies the position of St. Vin cent dela Barquera, and other parts, so as to secure that place from all attempts at invasion. Other French battalions are employed to pursue and chase into the mountains the fugitives of the corps which MARQUESELLO commanded, and the irregular troops which he had enrolled. At their head are the Vicar TOPIA, known by his excesses in the Provinces of Valladolid and Palencia ; a Dominican of the Astu rians, cloathed in the uniform of a Captain ; and an Abbe of the diocese, appointed Lieutenant-Co lonel. Sundry intercepted letters make known the con sternation and terror of the enemy's chiefs since the day of the ► Ith. We know by others, anterior to that epoch, to what an height the ferocity of these brigands had been exerted. One of them is An aet, dated the 10th instant, to the Alcatieg, by the Junta of Cudego, and containing the abominable _order of the Marquis RoNtAN A. to burn the villages which have opposed no resistance to the entrance of the Vrenen troops. We must confess that the example of BLAKE is not encouraging to them. He ,had advanced from the side of Saragossa towards General SU' CHET, who, against his 1!2,000 men, sent but from 6 to 7000 at most. BLAKE, after, Josing battle, and abandoning two , thirds of his artillery, finds himself closely pursued by General SUCHKT. He would find no asylum but in the mountains on the side Of Molina and Arragotr, from whence he will have great difficulty in regain hug Valencia, and if he should accomplish it, he will. probably be obliged to abandon the remair.der of his artillery. In Catalonia the siege , of Gerona is advancinj, Many of the forts are in our power. According to the last Courier, a capitulation was thought of.— (Abellie du Kurd.) PRIVATE CnBRESPONDEIQCE. MANKS OF THE ELBE, JULY 4.—For these last two days the rumour of the signing of Peace be tween France and Austria has been general, and is re-echoed in all the public Prints of France and Ge.r. many, though without any official sanction. Many people are still very dubious in that respect, on ac count of the very hard conditions Which the French and other Continental Journals represent, to have been offered to Austria, particularly the great addi tional sacrifice of territory, and the immense war contribution of two hundred millions of frauks,which, unless paid, the French armies are to occupy those parts of the Austrian territory, which they will' per mit her-Sovereign 'to retain. It, is also very myste rious, that neither the Austrian official army ac count, nor any of the Prague Gazettes, published by immediate Imperial Austrian au!hority, should make the least mention of the Armistice, or publish it as an official document ; dowil to the .6th uIL that has not been the case. On the contrary, stria Orders were given in Upper Austrian Sileaia, not to speak of any political subject relative to the war, or to the Imperial armies. The following document was not allowed to be published in the Hamburgh or German Papers under French controul NOTR, IN THE ENIPRROR FRAWCT3'S OWN HAND WRITING, TO COUNT SAIIANS'icY, GOVERNOR OF MORAVIA. Camp at Upper Hv'ilarbrunn, Tuly 7, dog. " The Austrian right wi.og has defeated the left of the enemy, and, taken ken pieces of cannon, 12 eagles, and many prisoners. On the other hand, our left wing has been trirnel by the enemy's right, and consequently, replAsed, which may expose th e frontiers of Mor2ivia to be threatened by an hostile invasion, howe'rer trifling, or of short duration, since our army is still' able to face the enemy. Our loss is More cow.iderable than it was at Aspern, but that of the etrenly fe4: exceeds ours. FELANCI3." On the 11th instr 300 Danish troops passed the Elbe, near Gluckst ad', to march into Hanover, to co-operate with, th; Westphalians and Dutch. They say that 6000 men more Are to follow. . Serious trouble* are said to have broken out in Holland ; the peoi le are much dissatisfied ; the King is gone to Aix la 12,hapelle. Tim great Exp edition from England seems to be the terror of the French, and. it is to be hoped that a greit blow be struck either in 1-I(J;inlicl ut Denmark. The new King of Sweden, by proposing to make the Du Of AUGUSTENBURG his successor, intend, bono...fide, to unite Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Some English parties have landed at Bremerlehe and Cuxhaven, and carried off some French marines, Custom-house officers, soldiers, artillerymen, and se veral pieces of ordnance. Yesterday her Royal Highness the Prin, n f WALES, and a sae& party, dined with the D . ( s of,Bauzas wrcx., at her house at Blackheath. The first interview between the Duke of BRUNS WICK Ok:LS and his august mother, was truly affed ing. Her Royal Highness hung about his neck for some time, without uttering a word, at last mur mured, " Oh, your father l" Several Naval Officers of distinguished merit, who, from a peculiarity of circumstances, were not, on the fining out of the Grand Expedition, actively empfeyed,. have notwithstanding volunteered tlit:tr services on the present occasion. Among thee• we find Captain FEE/Unit, lately of the Albion, 74, which is paid off at Chatham, and Captain PuGrr, who have displayed uncommon zeal and activity in assisting to fors„ the arrangements tor carrying into effect. the extensive plan-of operations. Captain PUGET has, we understand, received the distinguish ed appointments ot. CaptAin of the Pori of Ei„saing, and' CommiSsioner for the Navy and Vie-lual:ing Departments; as also of that for the transports em ployed in the Scheldt. Reinforcements, it is said,. are immediaiely to be sent out to the army of Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY.---• TWo or three brigades of cavalry will be some artillery, a reinforcement from the Royal waggon train, a .brigade of foot guards, and recruits for all the regiments of . the fire in Spain. The Portuguese Legion, - under the command of Sir ROBERT WILSON, as was mentioned in Sir AR- TilUft WELLESLEY'S last dispatches, were stationed at•Escalond duri , g the battle of Talavera. Escalona is situated on the right wing, considerably in. tho rear of the French army, and only 15 leagues from Madrid. The march of the Legion from Placentia. to Escalona was conducted at the rate of 30 English miles a day. It had been previously settled by Sir ARTHUR, that if the French fought, Sir IL WiLsog was to attack their flank and rear ; that if they re treated, his Legion was to form the advanced guard of the British army. Tile latter part of the plate will probably even now be carrit'd into execution,. Or4rs were received at' Plymouth on Tusday, to prepare for the reception of 1000 sick and wounded men, daily expeded fr9tn Sir ARTHUR W814.1151-EY'a army. On Wednesday a cartel arrived at Dartmouth from Murtaix, having on board 54 women and chil dren, most of whom have heal detained in France since the commencement of hostilities. It has been said, that by this.conveyance di , patches,were bi ought over to Governthent ; but this we (.10 not vouch for. Letters recently received from the Continent state, that Sir JOHN STuAIiT has actually taken possession of Naples. A vessel which had broken the Dutch ernbarg.o arrived yesterday. She had left Holland on the 7th, but brotilliht no Papers. Buhiness had been entirely suspendrd in consequence ut t!.e arrival of our EN" p-co hion, and thoGovernttient was constantly occupied in preparing means of defence. Troops were march" ing from all quarters to the banks of the SCho , lt!' BLION4PARTE, it was reported, had arrived at Paris. . We .hsve received letters from the British army its Spain which, though not of a later date than thd 13th ult. tire, nevertheless, extremely iiinresting.e"*" Their contents are to the following purport They season had been such, as the oldest rehabie taut never before experienced; the rain cutitintral4 and fevers of course prevalent. Cuesta's fosse, iri appearance, was most respectable. With Genera,. Franchteichi, the Prince ot Parma was taken, and Vhree , A4des-de-Camp -killed; the captois were capuchita and peastee,. A lever from Soul!, had fallen into our hands, presenting, under date Zamora, a most tnelancholf picture. He had quarrelled with Ney, who insist' ed 00, his (Soult's) remaining in Galicia, in order to sirve him tram disastrous consequences ; whereas Soult wished Ney to attack Vigo, and establisls himself at Nlonferte, Lugo, &c. but the latter re' plied,. he had enough to do, without aggressive operations.' Souit, during his march, had been constantly at' tlacked by the people; and, at one place, 'had to 'pass under the tire of several thousands, occueying the over- hangina rocks, withsome losses. He describes his army as loaded with disease, without clothes , I ` money, medicine, or ammunition ; and no artillery , but some mounted guns he found at Lugo. U charges the Generals with " morale ejji)illisse: went ;" insists on their removal, as the Chiefs should be-men of loyalt) and energy, under themiost des' • peraie fortunes. He aeqeits the Generals of th e charge of treason, whispered at O e orto. His c'a' valry, he says, is ruined ; that the sick mount their horses, to prevent being murdered by the people , - whose ferocity makes the warfare most revoltia and painful to the army. He considers Gallicia Cna tirely under the influence of priests, Rornana, an English gold ; and no good to be expected frOO. that province, without several months comple te subjugation. He demands a long repose, and e ver jr to re-establish his army; and excuses bi evacuation ot Gallicia, from having been five ni ontil! - with Out orders, and the supposition that the English were about to advance on Madrid and Victor. Such a mournful representation ot a military fdr o is scarcely to be paralleled. -As the Mediterranean, like all inland seas, very little ebb andeflood, the rise and fall took place on the G, noose coast, on the 14th July was the more remarkable. It rose at Spczzia gl feet above the usual height, and did consider , !Ol e mage. The weather was at the same tune remark s , bly fine. It is therefore conjectured that this pho' it , meson was the effect ot the shock of a & slat ' :earthquake. . Flush' g surrendered on the day the Extraollli; nary Gazette containing the account o' Sir ART° W E LLESLEY'S brilliant vittory was L;oblished% it was also the anuicersary of BuoNV:AIiTES B' r day; ,and thus we celebrated it in this country.